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Define input . Describe keyboard entry including the different types of keyboards and keyboard features. Discuss pointing devices including mice, touch screens , joysticks , and styluses . Describe scanning devices including optical scanners and card readers .
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Define input. • Describe keyboard entry including the different types of keyboards and keyboard features. • Discuss pointing devices including mice, touchscreens, joysticks, and styluses. • Describe scanning devices including opticalscanners and cardreaders. • Discuss image capturing devices including digital cameras and digital video cameras.
Define output. • Discuss monitors features, flat-panel, CRT, e-bookreaders, dataprojectors, and HDTVs. • Define printing features as well as ink-jet, laser, cloud, dot-matrix, thermal, plotter, photo, and portableprinters. • Discuss audio and video devices including portable media devices, and MobileDTV. • Define combination input and output devices including faxmachine, multifunctionaldevices, and Internettelephone.
Have you ever wondered how information gets into your computer or comes out in a form you can use? • Input devices convert what we understand into what the system unit can process • Output devices convert what the system unit has processed into a form that we can understand
Any data or instructions used by a computer • Input devices translate data into a form that the system unit can process • Some hardware input devices include: • Keyboards • Mice • Pointing devices • Scanning devices • Image capturing devices • Audio-input devices
Keyboards • Traditional keyboards • Ergonomic keyboards • Wireless keyboards • PDA keyboards • Virtual keyboards • Features • Typewriter keyboard with numeric keypad • Special purpose keys • Toggle • Combination keys
Mice - Optical Mechanical Wireless
Optical scanners • Flatbed scanners • Document scanners • Portable scanners • Card Readers • Magnetic card readers • Radio frequencycard readers
Bar code readers • Handheld wand readers or platform scanners • Contain photoelectric cellsthat read bar codes • Character and mark recognition devices • Magnetic-ink character recognition (MICR) • Optical-character recognition (OCR) • Optical-mark recognition (OMR)
Digital cameras • Images recorded digitally on disk or in camera’s memory • Images can be downloaded to a computer • Digital video cameras • Records motion digitally, can also take still images • WebCams • Specialized digital video cameras built-in or attached tothe monitor
Exchange messages and files with friends • Voice and video capabilities • Application sharing
Voice recognition systems • Use a microphone, sound card, and special software • Users can operate computers and create documents using voice commands
Processed data or information • Types of output • Text • Graphics/photos • Audio & video • Output devices • Monitors • Printers • Audio-output devices
Known as screens or display screens • Output referred to as soft copy • Features • Resolution/pixels • Dot pitch • Refresh rate • Size • Aspect ratio
Flat-panel monitors • Require less power to operate • Portable and thinner than CRTs • Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) • Active matrix/thin film transistor (TFT) • Passive matrix/dual-scan • Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) • Cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitors
Other monitors • E-Book readers • Digital/interactive whiteboards • High-definition television (HDTV)
Enjoy reading on the go • Many feature subscriptions to newspapers and magazines
Translates information that has been processed by the system unit • Output referred to as hard copy • Features • Resolution • Color • Speed • Memory • Duplex printing
Ink-jet printers • Laser printers • Personal or shared • Other printers • Cloud printers • Dot-matrix printers • Thermal printers • Plotters • Photo printers • Portable printers
Translates audio information from the computer into sounds that people can understand • Speakers and headsets • Portable media players/digital media players • Apple iPod, Creative Zen, Microsoft Zune • Mobile digital television (Mobile DTV)
Fax machines • Multifunctional devices (MFD) • Internet telephones • Known as Internet telephony and IP telephony • Voice-over IP (VoIP) • Ooma • Vonage • MagicJack • Skype
Technical writers prepare instruction manuals, technical reports, and other scientific or technical documents • Typically requires a college degree • Communications • Journalism • English • Specialization or familiarizationwith a technical field • Technical writers can expect toearn $46,500 to $76,500 annually
Electronic Interpretation may soon exist to provide personal interpretation for foreign languages and images • Prototype portable handheldelectronic interpreters are currently in a testing phase at the U.S. Office of Naval Research
Define input and input devices. • Describe the different types of keyboard, pointing, scanning, image capturing, and audio-input devices. • Describe output and output devices. • Describe the features and different types of monitors and printers.
Describe audio and video devices including portable media devices and Mobile DTV. • What are combination input and output devices? Discuss some examples. • What are Internet telephone phones? List and discuss four Internet telephone service providers.